This one-week course will help you discover new possibilities, expand your visual interests and add new energy to your work. Lectures examine the work of major photographers in specific fields, thus providing a context for each day's work. Discussions cover theory, history, and technical concerns. Afternoons are spent working in the field on specific assignments, each designed to awaken your eye and strengthen your ability to deal effectively with new subject matter in a highly personal way. The course is conducted in B&W. Film is processed each evening by The Workshops, with contact sheets and prints ready for review and critique the next day. Subjects covered during the week: First Day: Spaces-The afternoon is spent photographing spaces, capturing the corner of a room, photographing a farmyard, backyard or porch. Second Day: The Landscape-We work on rural and urban landscapes, photographing seascapes and horizons to create three-dimensionality with the foreground, middle-ground and background. Third Day: Objects-This day we photograph things, an object's integrity, essence and its place as defined by the space around it. Fourth Day: The Portrait-We are concerned with exploring ways to photograph people: friends, strangers, groups of people, even ourselves. Fifth Day: The Emotional Photograph-This assignment is to produce a single, complex photograph which expresses an emotion, concept or idea. Final Day: Saturday morning is a final review of the week's work, with an assessment of each participant's progress, new ground broken, discoveries made and the direction in which each student will leave Rockport. Class Structure Mornings, we will review and critique the previous day's photographs. Slide lectures and discussions present new ideas and explore the way other photographers have handled specific subject matter. The Workshops will handle the processing and printing, leaving you free to concentrate on photographing. Assignments are designed to develop your ability to see and make photographs of what you experience, feel and see. You will work with a 35mm camera in B&W film. Digital shooters are also welcome in this workshop and will have their work contact printed and prints made by our Digital Service bureau. While all sessions follow this basic structure, each instructor will bring his or her own personal experiences to the material covered. ** Sept. 23 - Sept. 29 workshop will only use our Digital Service bureau. If you do not own a digital camera, you can reseve one for the week.